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Howdy, partner! Grab your cowboy boots and giddy up to a night of country music and line dancing, featuring The Derek Lersch Band. Join us at After Hours on the last Tuesday of the month for live music and dancing, with extended hours in the galleries, Bistro, and SHOP! Each...

You’re invited to an unforgettable evening at Bay Preserve as Party in Paradise makes its much-anticipated return! Come connect with fellow conservation-minded friends while supporting the protection of our land and water for the benefit of both people and nature. Sponsorship opportunities are now available. Take advantage of early bird...

Book of Brass, written by Pulitzer Prize and three-time GRAMMY®-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, spans moods from meditative to funky. Richard Strauss put an ambitious stamp on the beginning of his career with his Piano Quartet, combining the drama and rich harmonies of his hero, Brahms, with his own youthful energy.

Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero opens Sarasota Orchestra’s Masterworks season in technicolor! Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances bursts with his trademark Romantic melodies and fierce energy. Alessio Bax performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, perhaps the most beloved piano concerto of all time. Jennifer Higdon’s ethereal blue cathedral opens this vibrant program.

The music of 18th-century prodigy Felix Mendelssohn is paired with that of 20th-century master David Maslanka. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 was his final completed work. Maslanka’s four wind quintets are landmarks of the repertoire, with his fourth composed for our very own Sarasota Wind Quintet. The program opens with...

Sarasota Orchestra audiences could not stop raving about 2023’s symphonic screenings of Star Wars: A New Hope! Now it’s time to dust off those Darth Vader helmets for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back live in concert, with the full Orchestra playing John Williams’ extraordinary music and the iconic film...

Our Great Escapes kickoff happens in the middle of spooky season, but don’t be frightened! This charming program chases off the creepy crawlies with bright melodies from the opera house to the movie theater, the ballet, and the greatest rock ‘n’ roll concerts in history.

This program showcases lesser-known versions of famous works, beginning with Beethoven’s fourth and final version of his Overture to Fidelio and the Rococo Variations as Tchaikovsky originally wrote them. Mahler’s Blumine, cut from his first symphony, stands beautifully on its own. Mozart composed two different slow movements for his Symphony...

Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call captures the relentless energy of a seaside city. Pianist Clayton Stephenson performs Gershwin’s jazz-infused Concerto in F. Charles Ives composed his delightfully quirky Variations on “America” when he was only 17. Audiences at the 1934 premiere of Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony erupted in...